Charles Sheehan

It was so cold Saturday, "the inside of my nose froze," said Ramiro Vargas, 26, drying cars at the Ultra Sonic Car Wash on Western Avenue. "I couldn't breathe." Adding...

Thomas G. Lyons headed the Cook County Democratic Party for nearly 17 years, often through turbulent times, using his repertoire of World War II ballads sung with politicians around a...

A day after a gunman shot and killed three men and wounded a woman in an office building in downtown Chicago, their families and friends remembered the victims Saturday as...

If authorities exhume the bodies of five nursing home residents at the heart of a police investigation, it won't be easy to determine whether they received a lethal drug overdose,...

Authorities took away file boxes and computers Wednesday night from the plumbing company co-owned by slaying victim Gerald Dhamer, continuing their probe of a shotgun killing that looked like a...

Locked out by security guards overwhelmed at county election offices, scores of supporters of Cook County Board presidential candidate Tony Peraica chanted his name and called for faster ballot counting...

Roger Holyfield had recently turned to Bible verses to help chase away his demons, the psychological troubles and outbursts that marred the teenager's life. But on Oct. 28, as Holyfield...

A dentist failed to monitor the pulse, breathing and blood pressure of the 5-year-old girl who slipped into a coma and eventually died when she received a sedative mix of...

The pilots of a Comair commuter jet accelerating down a runway too short for a successful takeoff voiced concern there were no lights bordering the airstrip, according to a cockpit...